# Moving your recipes to new software

Switching brewing software is mostly a file transfer. The part that trips people up is not the import — it is the five minutes of setup afterwards that makes the numbers match.

HTML version: https://brewgravity.com/guides/import-your-recipes/


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Source: https://brewgravity.com — Step-by-step guide to migrating homebrew recipes between brewing programs via BeerXML, including setting brewhouse efficiency, IBU model differences (Tinseth vs Rager), and what does not transfer.